RasMol 2.7.5 incorporates changes by T. Ikonen, G. McQuillan, N. Darakev
and L. Andrews (via the neartree package). Work on RasMol 2.7.5
supported in part by grant 1R15GM078077-01 from the National Institute
of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS), U.S. National Institutes of Health
and by grant ER63601-1021466-0009501 from the Office of Biological &
Environmental Research (BER), Office of Science, U. S. Department of
Energy. RasMol 2.7.4 incorporated changes by G. Todorov, Nan Jia,
N. Darakev, P. Kamburov, G. McQuillan, and J. Jemilawon. Work on RasMol
2.7.4 supported in part by grant 1R15GM078077-01 from the NIGMS/NIH and
grant ER63601-1021466-0009501 from BER/DOE. RasMol 2.7.3 incorporates
changes by Clarice Chigbo, Ricky Chachra, and Mamoru Yamanishi. Work
on RasMol 2.7.3 supported in part by grants DBI-0203064, DBI-0315281
and EF-0312612 from the U.S. National Science Foundation and grant
DE-FG02-03ER63601 from BER/DOE. The content is solely the responsibility
of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of
the funding organizations.

The code for use of RasMol under GTK in RasMol 2.7.4.2 was written by
Teemu Ikonen.

The original RasMol manual was created by Roger Sayle. In July 1996,
Dr. Margaret Wong of the Chemistry Department, Swinburne University
of Technology, Australia, made extensive revisions to the RasMol 2.5
manual to accurately reflect the operation of RasMol 2.6. Eric Martz
of the University of Massachusetts made further revisions. In May
1997, William McClure of Carnegie Mellon University reorganized the
HTML version of the manual into multiple sections which could be
downloaded quickly and added use of frames. Portions of the 2.7.1
version of the RasMol manual were derived with permission from
William McClure's version using Roger Sayle's rasmol.doc for
version 2.6.4 as the primary source. Changes were made in
August 2000 for RasMol version 2.7.2, January 2001 for RasMol
version 2.7.1.1 and April 2001 for RasMol version 2.7.2.1 and
February 2005 for RasMol version 2.7.3.

Thanks to translations by Fernando Gabriel Ranea in late 2000
and early 2001, RasMol is now
capable of rendering most menu items and messages in Spanish.
Jean-Pierre Demailly provided French
translations of menus and messages in January 2001.
Giuseppe Martini and Giovanni Paolella
with contributions by A. Davassi, M. Masullo and C. Liotto provided Italian
translations of menus and messages in March 2001.

IMPORTANT - Copying and Distribution

This version is based directly on RasMol version 2.7.5.1,
on RasMol version 2.7.4.2,
on RasMol version 2.7.4.1,
on RasMol version 2.7.4,
on RasMol version 2.7.3.1,
on RasMol version 2.7.3, on RasMol version 2.7.2.1.1,
on RasMol version 2.7.2, on RasMol version 2.7.1, on RasMol
version 2.6_CIF.2, on RasMol version 2.6x1, on RasMol version
2.6.4, and RasMol 2.5-ucb and 2.6-ucb.

Please read the file NOTICE for
important notices which apply to this package and for
license terms (GPL or RASLIC).

This posting is made to announce the release of RasMol version
2.7.5.2 This release is based on
RasMol 2.7.5.1.

This is a final update to the 2.7.5 series before release of the 2.7.6 release
candidates, correcting some minor bugs and speeding up surface renderings
by use of NearTree 3.1. The version of CBFlib used has also been updated.
The changes made between the 2.7.5.1 release of 23 July 2009 and the
2.7.5.2 release were:

Faster surface rendering by use of NearTree 3.1

Updates to GTK version from T. Ikonen

Use of CBFlib 0.9.2

Use of CQRlib 1.1.2

Minor bug fixes

The changes made between the 2.7.5 release candidate release of 17 July 2009
and the formal release on 23 July 2009 were:

Correction to the support for core CIF data file loads that was disabled in the
move to CBFlib in place of the internal CIF support.

Correction to the CCP4 map read logic in the case of symmetry
lines. Thanks to Marian Szebenyi for finding this bug.

Clarification to the install instructions for 64-bit unix systems.
Thanks to Marian Szebenyi and Mark Diekhans for pointing out the lack
of clarity.

The major changes from the 2.7.4.2 release to the 2.7.5 release include:

Support for SBEVSL movie commands.

Support for Lee-Richards surface approximation by contouring pseudo-Gaussian
electron densities.

Selection of atoms by proximity to map contours

Coloring of maps by the colors of neighboring atoms

Significant improvements to the GTK version by Teemu Ikonen

The 2.7.4.2 release was based on RasMol 2.7.4 and RasMol 2.7.4.1 and
RasMol 2.7.3.1,
the final reference release for the 2.7.3 series. The changes from the 2.7.3.1 release to the
2.7.4.1 release included:

RasMol is a molecular graphics program intended for the visualisation
of proteins, nucleic acids and small molecules. The program is aimed at
display, teaching and generation of publication quality images. The original
program was been developed at the University of Edinburgh's
Biocomputing Research Unit and the Biomolecular Structures Group at
Glaxo Research and Development, Greenford, UK.

RasMol reads in molecular co-ordinate files in a number of formats and
interactively displays the molecule on the screen in a variety of colour
schemes and representations. Currently supported input file formats
include Brookhaven Protein Databank (PDB), Tripos' Alchemy and Sybyl
Mol2 formats, Molecular Design Limited's (MDL) Mol file format,
Minnesota Supercomputer Center's (MSC) XMol XYZ format, CHARMm format,
MOPAC format, CIF format and mmCIF format files. If connectivity
information and/or secondary structure information is not contained in
the file this is calculated automatically. The loaded molecule may be
shown as wireframe, cylinder (drieding) stick bonds, alpha-carbon
trace, spacefilling (CPK) spheres, macromolecular ribbons (either
smooth shaded solid ribbons or parallel strands), hydrogen bonding and
dot surface. Atoms may also be labelled with arbitrary text strings.
Alternate conformers and multiple NMR models may be specially coloured
and identified in atom labels. Different parts of the molecule may be
displayed and coloured independently of the rest of the molecule or
shown in different representations simultaneously. The space filling
spheres can even be shadowed. The displayed molecule may be rotated,
translated, zoomed, z-clipped (slabbed) interactively using either the
mouse, the scroll bars, the command line or an attached dials box.
RasMol can read a prepared list of commands from a `script' file (or
via interprocess communication) to allow a given image or viewpoint to
be restored quickly. RasMol can also create a script file containing
the commands required to regenerate the current image. Finally the
rendered image may be written out in a variety of formats including
both raster and vector PostScript, GIF, PPM, BMP, PICT, Sun rasterfile
or as a MolScript input script or Kinemage.